Cutting-tool.



B. GOODMAN.

CUTTING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1910.

991,295. Patented May 2,1911.

BENEDICT GOODMAN, OF WALLACE, KANSAS.

CUTTING-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2, 1911.

Application filed May 31, 1910. Serial No. 564,165.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENEDICT GOODMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at lVallace, in the county of Wallace and State of Kansas, haveinvented a new and useful Cutting-Tool, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has reference to improvements in cutting tools and itsobject is to provide a cutting tool especially adapted for use inconnection with a harvester, although not necessarily limited to suchuse. This object, and such other incidental obj ects as will hereinafterappear, are attained in the use of the device illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and the invention consists in certain novelfeatures of the same, as will be hereinafter first fully described andthen pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of a tool embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detaillongitudinal section of the head of the tool. Fig. 4 is a detailperspective view of one member of the wire cutter. Fig. 5 is a plan viewof a modified form of wire cutter. Fig. 6 is an edge view of the levermember shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a similar view taken at right anglesto Fig. 6.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a handle 1 consisting of spacedmembers or rods diverging from a head 2 and connected at their outerends, by a cross bar 3, to one end of which is hinged an angular frame lwhich is detachably fastened to the opposite end of the cross bar by ascrew 5*.

Slidably mounted between the sides of the frame 1* is a follower 6controlled by an adjusting screw 7 a which is mounted in the cross bar 3and engages the said follower, as will be readily understood. Thisfollower and the outer end of the frame 1 coiiperate to constitute a nutWrench whereby nuts may be readily moved or turned home, as will bereadily understood upon reference to Fig. 1. It will also be noted thatthe frame is constructed in two members having their outer endsconnected by a hinge 4 The head 2 is formed with a conical body 3, oneend of which constitutes a hammer, as indicated at 4, and the other endof which runs to a point 5 adapted to be inserted through a staplewhereby the staple may be readily removed from the post or other body inwhich it has been driven. On one side of the body 3 is a claw or nailextractor 6, while on the opposite side of the conical body is a plate 7from which the handle 1 extends. Pins or studs 8-, which are spacedapart, project from the plate 7 along the central longitudinal line ofthe tool, and between said studs the plate is provided with a transverseopening adapted to receive a bolt 9 constituting a pivot for the levermember 10 of a wire cutter. By reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings, itwill be noticed that the opposite ends of the handle member are indifferent longitudinal planes and the intermediate portion of the saidmember is of an ogee form whereby the tool is adapted to be used inordinarily inaccessible points about a. harvesting machine. The levermember 10 is likewise given an ogee shape so as to follow the contour ofthe handle member and, consequently, lie close against the same when thetool is being used as a wrench or as a hammer or for extracting nails orstaples. The bolt 9 passes through the end of the lever member 10 andalso through a cutter plate 11, whereby the cutter plate is secured tothe plate 7 of the body of the tool, and the lever member 10 is alsofulcrumed in position to coact with the said cutter plate. The saidplate 11 is provided in its opposite edges with notches 12 adapted toengage the pins 8 whereby the said plate will be prevented fromtwisting, and on its upper edge the said plate is provided with acutting point or tooth 13 which projects beyond the edge of the body 2,as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 5. The lever member 10 is also providedwith a cutting edge 14 adjacent its fulcrum which is adapted to coactwith the tooth 13 and the upper edge of the cutter plate 11 to sever astrand of wire held in the notch formed by the edge of the plate and thesaid tooth. It will be observed that the cutting edge 1 1 works in aplane parallel with the face of the plate so as to pass through andacross the wire and thereby produce a shearing action against the edgeof the plate and the tooth 13 by which the wire will be cleanly severed.At the inner lower corner of the cutter plate 11 is an outstanding spuror cutting projection 15 which lies close against the body 3 andprojects beyond the surface of the same, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. Ifit be desired to cut a wire against this pro jection or tooth 15, thelever member 10,

illustrated in F ig. 1, is removed and the form of lever member shown inFig. 5, at 16, is substituted therefor. This lever member 16 has a beakor tooth 17 which is shorter than the blade 14 and projects laterallybeyond the face of the member 16, as shown at 18, so as to provide awide cutting edge 19 which is adapted to 'work past the upper straightedge 20 of the tooth 15 so as to produce a shearing action in connectiontherewith upon a strand of wire which may be resting upon the saidtooth.

It will be readily seen, from the foregoing description, that I haveprovided a very simple and compact tool by which a variety of operationsmay be easily performed and in which the use of the device to performany one operation does not impair its efficiency or otherwise affect itscapability of performing any other operations. The members of the wirecutter are secured in position by the same bolt which serves as thepivot for the lever member of the cutter and yet may be easily removedfrom the handle or body of the tool when it is desired to utilize thesame without any interference from the wire cutter. The pins 8 projectfrom the body of the tool so as to engage notches in the edges of thecutter plate and thereby hold the same in position against distortion orslipping so that the wire will be efl'ectually held until it is out. Itwill be understood, of course, that the cutter may be mounted on anytool. The conical body 3 forms an outstanding abutment from the surfaceupon which the plate 11 finds lodgment, and this body is engaged by theadjacent edge of the plate, so as to relieve the pin 8 adjacent to thisabutment from shearing strain when cutting is attempted, for the pins 8may be of light construction serving mainly as positioning means andonly in part as means for preventing the turning movement of the cutterplate.

The advantages of the construction and of the method of operation willbe readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the inventionappertains, and while I have described the principle of operation of theinvention, together with the device which I now consider to be the bestembodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shownis merely illustrative, and that such changes may be made when desiredas are within the scope of the claims appended hereto.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a tool, a cutter plate provided with a passage therethrough andwith a notch in the edge at one side of the passage through the plate, abody member having a seat for the cutter plate, a perforation to matchthe passage through the cutter plate, a pin in position to enter thenotch in the cutter plate, and an abutment outstanding from the seat forthe plate in position to engage the edge of the plate in which the notchis formed, a lever member having a cutter for coaction with the cutterplate, and a securing means for the lever traversing the passage in thecutter plate and the perforation in the body member and securing thecutter plate to the body member by the lever.

2. A tool having a body member, a lever mounted on the body member, areadily removable pivot for securing the lever to the body member, and acutter plate interposed between the lever member and the body member andheld to the body member wholly by the lever member and its pivot, thecutter plate and lever member having respective cutting edges incoactive relation, the cutter plate being provided with oppositelydisposed edge notches, and the body member being provided with anoutstanding abutment adapted to engage one of the notched edges of thecutter plate to oppose movement of the latter on the engagement of thelever and cutter plate with an article to be cut, said body member alsobeing provided with spaced pins for entering the notches in the edges ofthe cutter plate to position the latter.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have heretoaflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BENEDICT GOODMAN.

Witnesses THOMAS MADIGAN, JAMES H. Gnovnn.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

